Staging.



` D. N. HUNT.

STAGING.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE s, 1911.

1,085,383, Patented Jan. 27, 1914.

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. li Sithagliti PATENT FFIQE.

DELPHIA N. HUNT, OF MONTPELIER, VERMONT.

STAGING.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DnLPi-iia N. HUNT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Montpelier, in the county ofVashington,

State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStaging; and I do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear. andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to staging and particularly for one employed bymasons, carpenters and wall decorators and has for its object toconstruct a device of this character. which is simple in construction,durable, and one in which a. platform may be adjusted for differentclasses of work.

A further object of the invention is to so construct a device of thisclass wherein a platform of different width may be used.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claimhereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an end elevation showing the manner ofsupporting the planks forming the platform. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof one of the stagings. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 4 isa sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5

is a similar view on line of Fig. 4t.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

In constructing the device a pair of adjustably spaced uprights 1 areemployed and have bolted to their respective outer faces castings 2,each of said castings being provided with a plurality of spaced hooks 3.The uprights 1 are provided at their upper and lower ends withextensions t and 5, respectively, and to which are bolted strips 6. Byproviding the strips 6, slots 7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 8, 1911.

Patented Jan. 27, 1914. Serial No. 631,974.

are produced, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described. Eachupright is provided with a base 8 which consists of angularly arrangedmembers 9 and 10 and to which the lower ends of the uprights 1 andstrips 6 are secured. i

The platform supporter consists of a pair of slidably connected sections11 and 12 each of which consists of parallel arranged spaced bars 13having their outer ends secured together by bolts 14, said bolts beingadapted to travel in the slots 7. The outer bars 13 are each provided attheir outer ends with U-shaped clips 15, each of which have their innerends secured to the slidably arranged inner bars 13, thus allowing theinner bar of the section 11 to slide between the space provided by theinner and outer bars of the section 12, the inner bar of the section 12sliding in the space between the inner and outer bars of the section 11,thus permitting relative adjustment of the sections 11 and 12 toaccommodate a single plank or a plurality of planks 16 forming theworking platform. Pivotally connected near the outer ends of thesections 11 and bolt 2O is passed for holding the sections 11 and 12 intheir adjusted position.

It will be of course understood when in use two of the staging are used,the opposite ends of the planks forming the platform resting upon theadjustable sections of each staging.

lVhat is claimed, is

In a device of the class described coniprising a pair of spaced uprightshaving slots formed therein, vertically alined hooks mounted in theslots, a scaffold support having bolts carried by its ends adapted toen- In testimony whereof, I affix my signagztge 1n said slots to preventend-Wise Inoveture, in presence of two Witnesses.

ment of said support, okes pivotally eonnected near the ends dif saidsupport, the DELPHIA N' HUNT' bights of which engage the hooks when saidVtnesses:

support is stationary, and the outer Walls of Jol-IN Gr. WING,

the slots When the support is being adjusted. C. EARLE HUNT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained foi` ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of :Patentsl Washington, D. C.

